Dozens of flights to and from the Wenzhou airport were cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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But Wipha, a female name in Thai, weakened into a tropical storm after hitting land. It mostly missed Shanghai as it headed north toward Jiangsu province.

One man was electrocuted in Shanghai ahead of the storm on Tuesday, local media said. Schools were closed on Wednesday in Shanghai and most of Zhejiang.

Wipha landed just where Super Typhoon Saomai, the strongest China had seen in 50 years, hit last year, killing hundreds in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.

The densely populated area is home to many small businesses and factories, with a mixture of modern buildings and older brick homes. Some 50,000 Zhejiang factories on the path of Wipha were forced to halt production, Xinhua said.

“The wind was not as strong as Saomai, but it lasted longer,” an official from Xiaguan township, where Wipha made landfall, told Reuters by telephone.

Typhoons regularly hit China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan in the summer months, gathering strength from warm sea waters before weakening over land.